Summary
In this chapter, you learned that Azure SQL Database is one of the flagship services of Azure. A plethora of customers are using this service today and it provides all the enterprise capabilities that are needed for a mission-critical database management system.
You discovered that there are multiple deployment types for Azure SQL Database, such as Single Instance, Managed Instance, and elastic pools. Architects should perform a complete assessment of their requirements and choose the appropriate deployment model. After they choose a deployment model, they should choose a pricing strategy between DTUs and vCPUs. They should also configure all the security, availability, disaster recovery, monitoring, performance, and scalability requirements in Azure SQL Database regarding data.
In the next chapter, we will be discussing how to build secure applications in Azure. We will cover the security practices and features of most services.
